New judge assigned in Penn State sex abuse case

[seafan]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

A new judge was assigned Wednesday to handle the child sex abuse charges against former Penn State football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, whose televised defense earlier this week drew a rebuke from a lawyer for one of his accusers.

The change removed a State College judge with ties to a charity founded by Sandusky for at-risk children, The Second Mile.

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Sandusky is due in court on Dec. 7, and the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts announced Wednesday that it was bringing in a Westmoreland County senior district judge to preside over his preliminary hearing. Robert E. Scott is taking over the hearing from Centre County District Judge Leslie Dutchcot.

Dutchcot has donated money to The Second Mile, where authorities say Sandusky met his victims.





Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/11/16/national/a152810S02.DTL

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Goodbye, Judge Leslie Duchtot.


Take those conflicts of interest elsewhere.

[pnwmom]

1. Good. n/t

[SkyDaddy7]

2. I wish it was that easy to get rid of...

USSC Justices SCUMlia & "Pubic Hair" Thomas for their conflict of interest in regards to hearing the case against the new Health Care Law.

[seafan]

3. New judge assigned to Sandusky sex-abuse case after Leslie Dutchot's ties to Second Mile surface

Another link to some welcome news tonight.

[Politicalboi]

4. That scum belongs in jail NOW!

Probably the only reason he is free is because of the judge. Bring one in tomorrow, and put this scum in jail now.

[atreides1]

6. He may be scum

But even scum is entitled to their day in court.


The prosecutor didn't even ask for jail time!

Prosecution asked for $500,000 bond and electronic monitoring...so if the first judge had given the prosecution what they wanted, it's safe to say that Sandusky still wouldn't be in jail.

[alp227]

5. Leslie Dutchcot, actually. And good on the county.

I speculate further that ANOTHER Pa. county might take up this case if Centre County (where PSU is) has too many COIs.